Absolute Java

"Praised for providing an engaging balance of thoughful examples and illustrative discussion, Absolute Java, Fourth Edition, is the most comprehensive book available for both beginning and intermediate Java programming students. Best-selling author Walter Savitch and contributor Kenrick Mock explain Java programming in a straightforward style using clear language as well as code enhanced by a suite of pedagogical tools. Its features include: coverage of web programming with JSP that introduces readers to the client/server side model; an extensive set of videonotes, step-by-step video tutorials, that bring programming concepts to life and allow beginning students to see first-hand how experienced programmers solve problems; and additional programming projects that offer even more opportunity for programming practice."--Publisher's description.

From inside the book

This book is the only source of my prerequisite and intensive course as a Master's student in computer science. It will guides you through Java from absolute beginner to an intermediate programmer.The author has explained every point in details and has given an excellent projects to be done by the student.It worth buying it.

About the author (2010)

Walter Savitch is Professor Emeritus of Computer Science at the University of California at San Diego. He received his PhD in mathematics from the University of California at Berkeley in 1969. Since that time he has been on the faculty of the University of California in San Diego (UCSD). He served as director of the UCSD Interdisciplinary PhD program in Cognitive Science for over ten years. He has served as a visiting researcher at the Computer Science departments of the University of Washington in Seattle and and at the University of Colorado in Boulder, and has been a visiting scholar at the Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica in Amsterdam.